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[–] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are dying on an an hill made of data chosen in piecemeal by news outlets that profit off of your attention. Below is an image from a 2019 (year for two of your four articles) GAO report that displays the audit rates with more granularity.

Even your own sources (https://trac.syr.edu/reports/706/ referenced in your 2022 Fox Article) with 2022 data still show that income greater than 1M is audited at 2.38% vs income <$25K with EITC is at 1.27%. You just keep beating up your own argument.

My statistics do support my statement that the IRS audit rates for the rich are higher than normal people, and in fact higher than the poorest. His statement is, again, incorrect, misleading, and intended to incite anger.

From the report on 2019 data:

"Although audit rates decreased more for higher-income taxpayers, IRS generally audited them at higher rates compared to lower-income taxpayers, as shown in the figure. However, the audit rate for lower-income taxpayers claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was higher than average. IRS officials explained that EITC audits require relatively few resources and prevent ineligible taxpayers from receiving the EITC."

source: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104960

Please ignore my negative initial vote score, as I have the privilege of being bot-downvoted by CCP sympathizers because of comments on this post https://lemmy.world/post/2338419, there is also the possibility that I’m just an asshole.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are dying on an an hill made of data chosen in piecemeal by news outlets that profit off of your attention.

mk bud. i cant believe you still dont understand why those rates are misleading. good luck out there

[–] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i don’t see how they can be misleading. the average person understands the difference between rates/percentages and resulting totals.

are you suggesting that the wealthy get audited at such an increased rate so that their total number of audits are the same as normal people? that would require almost 100% of all returns to be audited which is ridiculous.

i’m ok with being wrong and learning, but none what what you suggest is fair or makes any sense

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